Environment Canada has updated its winter storm warning for the Montreal area, raising the maximum possible precipitation to 50 centimetres by Friday evening. That’s more than the 45 cm max in its earlier warning, issued Thursday morning. As snow was falling, the updated late-afternoon warning predicted that “a total of 30 to 50 centimetres of …

An overflow shelter for the homeless set to open for the winter Monday night on the site of the former Royal Victoria Hospital will have 150 beds – up from 82 last year. And because winter came early, the shelter is opening a month earlier than last year. It will remain open through April.Last winter, …